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Marjorie Content (1895–1984) was an American photographer active in modernist social and artistic circles. Her photographs were rarely published and never exhibited in her lifetime, but have become of interest to collectors and art historians. Her work has been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Chrysler Museum of Art; it has been the subject of several solo exhibitions.〔( "Marjorie Content," in ''Bucks County Artists'' ), James A. Michener Art Museum〕 Her husbands included Harold Loeb, the editor of the avant-garde journal, ''Broom'', and the writer Jean Toomer, to whom she was married more than 30 years. ==Early years== Marjorie Content was born into a Jewish family in New York in 1895, the daughter of wealthy Manhattan stock-broker Harry Content and his wife Ada.〔Sarason 1980, p. 251〕 She was educated at the private Miss Finch's School. During these years, she began a lifelong friendship with Alfred Stieglitz, the uncle of a school friend and a prominent artist, photographer, and gallery owner. In 1914, Content left school at age 19 to marry writer Harold Loeb, also of New York. She returned with him to Alberta, Canada, where he had been working on a ranch. Their two children, Jim and Susan Loeb, were born in quick succession in 1915 and 1916.〔Sarason, Bertram. "Harold Loeb," ''Dictionary of Literary Biography'', Vol 4. Ed. Karen Lane Rood. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980, p. 251〕 After the United Kingdom declared war on Germany in the Great War, the couple returned to New York. Loeb worked in San Francisco for a time with a business of his maternal Guggenheim relatives. He entered the Army when the United States entered the world war. Due to poor eyesight, Loeb was assigned to a desk job in New York City.〔〔Kondritzer, Jeffry. ''Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts.'' Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1983/1984, p. 4〕 In 1919, Content became a manager of The Sunwise Turn bookshop, a female-run bookstore devoted to new writing. It was partly owned by her husband, who also worked there. In 1921 Loeb founded ''Broom'', which deepened Content's connections to the literary and art world. One of his partners, Lola Ridge, the magazine's American editor, hosted artists in the office of ''Broom,'' which was located in the basement of Content's brownstone. Loeb set up publishing of ''Broom'' in Rome in 1922. The two separated in 1921, and their divorce became final in 1923. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marjorie Content」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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